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( 5 . M. compreflas fhell large, about a fpan in length, in 
a manner leafy at top, but having a fmall lenticular cell 
below ; grooved and crinite in the other parts like the 
cultivated fort. 
y. M. dodoel: (hell very turgid ; in other refpefts very 
like the preceding, except in being a third part thorter. 
M. kayjer: (hell extremely like that of y, but fcarcely 
grooved, being only ftriated here and there. 
t. M. teloor: ihell lefs by half than the preceding va¬ 
rieties; but a little turgid, and deeply grooved. 
M. bierie-gandaria: (hell the fize and fhape of that of 
an almond ; leathery, thin, brittle, white, neither grooved 
nor ftriated, but rough with very grofs fibres. - 
Doubtlefs many more varieties might be added by peo¬ 
ple of the countries where this tree grows naturally. 
z. Mangifera laxiflora, or loofe-flowered mango : leaves 
ovate-hnceolate, nearly feflile ; ftamens all perfeft; fruit 
roundifit. We know this lpecies merely by Lamarck’s 
account. It is. faid to have the habit of the foregoing, 
but the fruit is fmaller. Native of the ifland of Mauritius. 
3. Mangifera axillaris, or axillary-flowered mango; 
leaves ovate-oblong, bluntilh ; paniclesaxillary; ftamens 
ten. Found by Sonnerat in the Eaft Indies. Lamarck, 
who received it from that intelligent traveller, defcribes 
this fpecies as clearly diliinguifliable from the two former 
by the above charafters. The leaves are four or five inches 
long, and near two in breadth ; fruit tile fize of a fmall 
cherry; but that author faw it only in a dry, and poffibly 
unripe, (fate. 
4. Mangifera pinnata, or wing-leaved mango-tree: leaves 
pinnate; flowers ten-ltamened. Leaves a foot long, un¬ 
equally pinnate; the leaflets oblong and quite entire. 
The flowers in a large panicled raceme. Linnaeus (Suppl. 
356.) refers it to this genus on the authority of Koenig, 
who had examined the living plant, and had feen the fruit. 
It appears however to be of a different genus; the flowers 
having ten (feldom eight) ftamens and five ftyles; the nut 
being five-celled and five-feeded, with a cover like that of 
the nutmeg, but callous. Willdenow refers it to the genus 
Spondias. It is a native of the Eaft Indies. 
5. Mangifera fcetida, or flunking mango-tree : racemes 
elongated ; petals entire and reflex; drupe cordate, pube- 
fcent. This is a large tree, with the bark fomewhat rug¬ 
ged, and afcending branches. Leaves lanceolate, quite 
entire, but three times the lize of thofe of the common 
mango ; dark green, fcnttered, on long petioles. Flowers 
red, terminating, in oblong racemes. Drupe flelhy hir- 
fute, roundifli, cordate, ftrong fmelling, of an acid flavour, 
and unwholefome. The wood, though not very good, is 
ufed for floors ; and lafts very well, il it be foaked a confi- 
derable time in muddy water. Native of the Eaft Indies 
and Cochinchina. 
Propagation and Culture. The vegetative quality of the 
nuts not feeming to be long preferved, the readielt me¬ 
thod to obtain plants of mango in Europe, is to fet a 
quantity of the nuts in a tub of earth in the country 
where they grow naturally, and, when the plants are 
grown a foot high, to (hip them, placing a covering over 
them to defend them from the fpray of the fea, and being 
very careful not to water them too much in the paflage; 
when the (hip arrives in a cold climate, i'creen them from 
cold. This tree will not thrive in the tan-pit. Set the 
plants therefore in pots filled with light kitchen-garden 
earth, and place them in a dry ftove, where in warm wea¬ 
ther they fliould have frelh air daily, and in winter the 
air (hould be kept up to temperate, as marked on the ther- ■ 
mometer. The nuts fliould be Cent over in wax to pre- 
lerve their vegetative quality. The mango may be in- 
creafed here from cuttings, in the fame manner as Gardenia. 
M A'N GIN ESS,/! Scabbinefs; infeftion with the mange. 
MANGISCHLAK', a town on the eaft coaft of the 
Cafpian Sea, which is a place of confiderable. trade be¬ 
tween the Tartars and Ruffians of Aftrachan : 180 miles 
fouth-eaft of Aftrachan. Lat.44. 10. N:. Ion. 52. 14. E. 
MAN'GIT, a town of European Turkey, in lielfara- 
bias twenty-two miles jionh-north-eaft of Tobak, 
MAN 
MAN'GIUM,/". in botany. See Rhizophora. 
MANGLA'RES, or Corn Island, an ifland in the 
Spaniffi Main, about fifteen miles long, and five broad. 
Near it is a fmall ifland, called Little Manglares. Lat. 11. 
45, N. Ion. 8z. jo. W. 
To MAN'GLE, v. a. \_mangelen, Dut. to be wanting; 
mancus, Lat.] To lacerate; to cut or tear piecemeal; to 
butcher.—It is hard, that not one gentleman’s daughter 
fliould read her own tongue; as any one may find, who 
can hear them when they are difpofed to mangle a play or 
a novel, where the leaft word out of the common road 
difconcerts them. Swift. 
Caffio, may you fufpeft 
Who they fliould be, that thus ha ve mangled you r Shake/p. 
Thoughts, my tormentors armed with deadly flings, 
Mangles my apprehenfive tendered parts, 
Exafperate, exulcerate, and raile 
Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb 
Or medicinal liquor can affuage Milton's Agonijlcs. 
MAN'GLE, /’. in botany. See Avxcennia, Bucida, , 
Conocarpus, and Rhizophora. 
MAN'GLE, f. [from manivelle, Fr. a handle.] A ma¬ 
chine to fmooth linen with. 
The mangle is now extremely common ; fcarcely a laun¬ 
dry is without it; and various patents have been granted 
for improvements in its machinery. We have felefted for 
explanation an improved mangle contrived by Mr. Jee, of 
Rotherham; to whom the Society for the Encouragement 
of Ai ts, in 1798, voted their iilver medal, for the ingenuity 
difplayed on that occalion. In the annexed Plate, A, 
fig. 1, points out the great wheel, which, in machines of 
a full fize, is fifteen inches in diameter. B, the arbor, on 
which the nut, C, is fixed. D, the handle of the winch. 
E, the crank, twenty-one inches in length. F, the rod of 
the crank. G G, reprefents the hollow ftuds, by which 
the ends of the bed are lifted up. H H, the levers. 111 I, 
the four pulleys fixed on the moveable bed K. L L, th? 
ends of the rollers. Fig. z. prefents a front view of one 
of the hollow ftuds G, to (how its form, when (landing at 
the end of the bed ; and into which the levers enter al¬ 
ternately, as often as it becomes neceflary to elevate the 
bed, in order to put in or take out the rollers. Fig. 3. . 
is a perlpeftive view of the mangle when at work ; the 
letters of reference to the feveral parts are the fame as in . 
fig. 1. This mangle is (o conltructed, that the handle re¬ 
quires to be turned one way only, in confeqqence of which 
the machine moves with greater facility, and with incom¬ 
parably lels injury'to the linen, than by varying the turn¬ 
ings, and in a manner cutting the different.folds. Befides, 
it pofteffes the great advantage, that a woman and one boy- 
are fuflicient to work it, and can perform as much labour 
in the lame period of time as three or four perfons with 
mangles of the common conltruftion. 
To MAN'GLE, v. a. To fmooth with a mangle. 
MAN'GLER, f. [from mangle.] A hacker; one that . 
deltroys bungiingly.: 
Since after thee may rife, in impious line, 
Coarfe manglers of the human face divine; . 
Paint on, till fate diffolv.e thy mortal part, 
And live and die the monarch of.thy art. Ticket. 
One that fmooths.linen in a mangle. 
MANGLIL'LA,/! in botany. See Mzrsine man-dilla. 
MAN'GLING, /. The aft of fmootning linen* in a 
mangle. 
MANGNOR', a town of Norway, in the province of 
Aggerhiuis : fifteen miles fouth of Konigfwinger. 
MAN'GO, / [mangojlan, Fr.] A fruit of the llle of Java, 
brought to Europe pickled. See Mangifera. —The fruit 
with the hulk, when very young, makes a good preferve 
and is ufed to pickle like mangoes, Mortimer . 
What lord of old would bid his cook prepare 
Mangoes, pourgo, champignons, cavare ? King. 
MAN'GO, 
